Jira Automation - Predecessor by Rank

[Hein Stegmann]

Hi there :D ,

I would like to automatically set the predecessor of an issue to the issue with a Rank just one above it in the backlog, and do this sequentially for all issues in the backlog. 

The problem I have is that {{issue.rank}} does not return e.g. rank = "7", rather it returns an alpha-numeric "2|i019qh".

The logic is as per below - is there any way of doing this using automation? Any help will be greatly appreciated and will save many manual hours moving forward!!

[Yvan Martin]

HI Hein,

Developer from Automation here.

Currently we don't have actions around setting board/backlog ranks, but we do have an open improvement item here: https://codebarrel.atlassian.net/browse/AUT-919

Hopefully this is something we will support in the future.

Cheers.